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Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Vaidisova send away Chakvetadze to secure place in the Wimbledon quarter finals

Czech Nicole Vaidisova sealed her place in the Wimbledon quarter-finals for the second successive year after coming from behind to defeat eighth seed Anna Chakvetadze 4-6, 7-6, 6-3 on Monday.

The 19-year-old, seeded 18th had looked to be heading for the way out because of her over-hitting and shaky service games in the first set against the 21-year-old Russian.

The turning point came in the second set tiebreak, which Vaidisova took to love. That seemed to give her new confidence and she quickly stormed to a 3-0 lead in the third set.

She served out the match, winning it when the Russian sent her return into the net, to set up a last-eight meeting with China's Zheng Jie, who overthrew top seed Ana Ivanovic last week and 15th seed Agnes Szavay on Monday.

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